Travel Blogs from Estonia

... Estonia. Estonia had been under USSR rule from the start of WWII until the fall of the old Soviet Union. Some of the people of Estonia feel that WWII didn't end until the mid-1990s when they were able to be free in their own country. But although they ...

I let the tent dry out a little after we got up. The kids had a go at archery, using one bow and six arrows. The manager supervised them for about 20 minutes, before he got bored. I could sense his growing realisation, that the arrow arcing into the ...

While you are waiting for an update (might take a day or two because of the busy schedule I impose on myself :( ) : the recipe for Angel Mojito , as served in the gay club Angel on Sauna Street
Angel Mojito
this Mojito was invented by Angel ...

... i had an Apple Martini, cold Gazpacho and a nice wok dish.
Some people have asked me about prices, so here is a small overview. Estonia is the most expensive of the 3 Baltic States, Lithuania being the cheapest and Latvia in the middle.
Prices are ...

... the cards and well-wishes that have come from all over. Her address is
Helgi Luts, Anne 30-87, Tartu, Estonia
for anyone who would like to write to her. I have been posting progress reports about her on my prayer page at ...

... a Russian Marine Base (where their submarines could be hidden under the cliffs), and a wild drive through the undiscovered parts of Estonia with Ele's car...an experience of a lifetime! Every road that looked unpassable, she took. We even had to help ...

Tallinn boasts an Olympic-sized swimming pool, just out of the town centre. The whole complex has fabulous facilities - sunbeds, gyms, saunas, water slides, jacuzzis and beauty treatments. Obviously, we tried out the black out, super scary slide, the ...

Jöekääru Adventure Camp is not quite what it seems. Its advertising boasts of corporate facilities, an adventure park, archery, kayaking, paint-balling and a climbing wall. In reality, it is a quiet but pleasant campsite with a play area for the ...

The past few weeks have been really interesting and now i am at the point where there is no turning back. I got my visa, I bought my plain ticket, i have made an application to quit my job and i have bought a tent and a backpack.
Now i am in a ...

Today I got up at 5.30 am to be on time for the departure at 7 am to Narva, on the border with Russia.
It is a 3 hour drive, but worth the effort because Narva is the place where you can almost touch Russia, it is so close. The town was mostly ...

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Hi!!
i suvived my first week in Estonia....and i am alive and happy....sometimes i get melancolic, but this is a part of the game....and it ...

August 24
So I left Tallinn by late morning and got into the bus with Bianka (hc:flowerpower) advice and did the ride to the hitch-hiking spot, which was after the airport in direction of Tartu. There is was already funny as there was more people ...

profile nr 2 : Hanna
Hanna and her friend Caisa contacted me about a month ago to stay at my place in Brussels. Unfortunately I was travelling myself that weekend, so I couldn't accommodate them. But we decided to stay in contact and we already met ...

Today, we had several options. After services, there was a walking tour around Estonia which was my vote and there was also a water park near our hotel (everyone else's vote). So, being out-voted 3-1 (the negative effects of women's suffrage) ...

We cleaned the summerhouse and got fresh wood for the sauna. Then we went to the bus stop, and we waited and waited and waited...until a minivan drove by, stopped 100 meters further, waited 10 seconds and then drove off again. It was only later that we ...

Today was our last day in Tallinn we had to check out of our hostel at 11am and we get the 11.40pm night bus to St Petersburg so there was a lot of waiting around! To keep up with our obsession of occupation museums we went to the one in Tallinn it was ...

... a night just outside the city, then in the morning find a shop for the waterproof bag before catching the ferry to Tallinn, Estonia. However as we drove along we couldn’t find a place to sleep so we just kept driving and driving and eventually ...

... songs for the first time in over 50 years. Then soon after they joined hands to make a chain the went across Estonia to show the German's they were coming together as true Estonians. Then in 1991 the were granted what they ...

My First Day
I am at the end of my first day and already it is getting difficult to keep this travel log up-to-date. Who wants to spend time behind the computer when you can have REAL fun, right ?
But just to show you I haven´t forgotten anybody ...

I first wanted to hitchhike to Tartu, Estonia's most important University City, but it was too hot and my backpack and other luggage was killing me. So I payed 95 EEK (about 8 euro) for a busticket and about 3 hours later I was at my destination where ...

We caught the bus to Tartu, a university town, crossing most of the country to get there. Upon arrival, we decided to walk to our accommodation. This was quite a walk. Perhaps we should pay more attention to the scale of the map next time :)
The town ...

... here which was in December 2007. Johnnie Lambert has been here many times. It is 90 miles here from Tartu, Estonia. The Schultz family kept the Feast of Tabernacles in Shluchsee, Germany and met many people from Germany, the United ...

Tartu is supposed to be nice. I wouldn't know. We didn't have time to stop and look. Finances, time and route planning meant the 'burbs and the railway station were all we saw. We headed south, determined to get to Kaunus for Nick's flight on Sunday ...

We arrived Tallinn (coming from Riga by bus) in the night and our stay there started with a problem. I made a reservation with hostelbookers.com, but they did not forward this reservation to the hotel. That hotel was overbooked, but the friendly ...